Right Or Wrong...Err Left?

Had a short quip with a lawyer during a work-related lunch the other day, and suddenly remembered this comment posted long ago in a post on a favourite blog. The blogger, who incidentally is also a lawyer (talk about coincidence), offered some very interesting views.
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Elementary My Dear Watson

A perfect example of one song- Suzanne Vega's "Tom's Diner", that explains music's basic elements of melody, rhythm and texture. There's a kind of existential feel to the song too the more i listened to it.


Her original, a capella album-version of the song, although a little "breathy" (due to close-miking technique probably), has quite an unforgettable melody and monophonic texture (one voice singing a melody). One single 'melody' and therefore it has "one layer of sound" ie. monophonic.

A Walk in the City

“When you remember the past, you are not remembering it as it was. You are remembering it as it is. It is a vision or a dream, present with you in the present, alive with you in the only time you are alive.” ~ Wendell Berry.

Her hand is warm against his. Cars passing by on both sides of the divide. She is careful with him lest one of them decides to care less. He could not tell exactly where they are going although she had told him before they leave home. "To work" is all he could recall. Unable to comprehend further he could only think of work as something fun. For him that is. How could it not be? The cars seems to say so too as they zoomed pass without a care.

What new vista will open up when they reach there? Will the people he meet be friends or foe? All these playing in his mind.

Now quietly they both walk to her workplace. The walk is long but his legs does not feel the weight in the warm air. The trees provide some shades from the scorching sun. Treading on soft dirt beside the road, shadows cast upon the ground where the sun smiles through the leaves. The sun and shadows seems to join in the fun now.

"How much longer before we reach there?"

"Not long. We'll be there soon after we cross the bridge"

The moment did not last for long. But realization only hits long after that. Too long. How could it be otherwise when the sun, the trees, those fast cars, and the shadows all come out to play on that warm sunny day.

Those moments are long gone now.

~ Dedicated to my mom ~

A Rendezvous

"Before my Soul taught me, I thought that when I was in any place on the earth I was remote from every other spot. But now I have learned that the place where I subsist is all places, and the space I occupy is all intervals." ~ Khalil Gibran

Looking out the window. Places passing by. The train moved ever so quickly. It has a date with lady-time.  Not realizing that she is always there waiting. Stopping in places to let weary souls get off. Some new souls will join the journey. While others will continue with theirs.

Music's Version of a Salvador Dali Painting

Coffee in a Cup (A Journalist's Song)

What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
—Last words of Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
—T.S. Eliot, Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Nik Kershaw 'Human Racing' Remastered ~ An Interview

"The thing that I’m concerned about is the death of the album, especially in the digital domain – people just cherry picking stuff from what’s available. I’ll go on iTunes and I’ll download an album because that’s what I do, I like to listen to a body of work, but people listen to music differently nowadays, they consume it in a completely different way... there might not be CDs available in the high street in the next few years." ~ Nik Kershaw

In Search of the Miraculous

An excerpt of P.D. Ouspensky's book, 'In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching':

You do not realize your own situation. You are in prison. All you can wish for, if you are a sensible man, is to escape. But how to escape? It is necessary to tunnel under a wall. One man can do nothing. But let us suppose there are ten or twenty men — if they work in turn and if one covers another they can complete the tunnel and escape.

Minimum Wage, Inflation and Unemployment

A few economic literature on the subject of of minimum wage and unemployment:

From Freaknomics - minimum wage decrease unemployment: Link Here

The Austrian school view: Mythology of the Minimum Wage

Graham White 2001. "The Poverty of Conventional Economic Wisdom and the Search for Alternative Economic and Social Policies". The Drawing Board: An Australian Review of Public Affairs, V. 2, N. 2 (Nov.): 67-87.

Perception of 2nd Density Beings

Any relevance of this post to life is that all living beings share the same world, but each one of us has vastly different perceptions of this world.

The question is: if animals could not perceive the world as humans do, could it be possible that human beings also could not perceive the world as some higher beings living among us could? Put in another word- is it possible that we live and move among beings that we cannot perceive? Just as the 2nd dimensional beings could not perceive third dimensional beings (humans) in the first video you posted.